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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by tinloaf on Monday August 25, 2014 @08:13PM (#8224975)
So now you can punish those annoying click-baits by clicking them and then returning to facebook as fast as possible? Nice. Also, this could be used to "punish" legit links someone does not like...
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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by fww on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:34PM (#8225238)
The better way to punish a link is to click the options drop down menu and select "I don't want to see this."
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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by ghayes on Monday August 25, 2014 @08:47PM (#8225089)
This is generally where big data helps. Your click is one signal among thousands of impressions / clicks. A single user's clicks shouldn't have a large impact in the aggregate.
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Re:News Feed FYI: Click-baiting by yanowitz on Monday August 25, 2014 @09:26PM (#8225219)
I think the argument is that bot-nets can appear to be 1000s of legitimate users and you can use this to undermine competitors.
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